Writing Samples

  • THIS IS NOT MY BEAUTIFUL WIFE

    (multiverse dark romantic comedy feature)

    When Mike feels his perfect marriage with Eleanor slipping away, he descends into emotional collapse so deep, he wakes up in a strange house with a woman named Heather claiming to be his wife. As he races across town to locate any remnants of the life he knows, he must come to face the absurd reality that he now lives in another universe, where his soul mate Eleanor seems perfectly happy never having known him.

  • POLKA!

    (musical romantic comedy feature)

    When activist rockstar Jack Stanley comes to realize he has become a sellout, he abandons his career to return to his family’s Chicago Polish community, where must work through unresolved conflicts with his father with the help of his childhood friend Genie and her local polka band.

  • THE MYSTERY OF THE PRINCIPAL AND HIS NOTEBOOK

    (murder mystery romantic comedy feature)

    As financial pressures push a couple to the edge of divorce, they find their daughter’s principal dead with their prints all over his bloody three-hole punch, forcing them to put aside their bickering long enough to solve the crime.

  • MY SECRET FAMILY

    (ensemble comedy pilot)

    After he finds his birth mother, the good-natured, quietly flustered Tucker Woodley struggles to keep the status quo by hiding his relationship with his irreverent birth family from the emotionally repressed family who adopted and raised him.

  • OUTCASTS

    (musical ensemble comedy pilot)

    Crafty band leader Bobby makes it his mission to corrupt the newest band member, a naive and idealistic trumpet player named Roger, who must learn how to navigate the absurd contradictions of adulthood in The Outcasts, a 12-piece wedding band.

  • BLACKOUT

    (comedy pilot)

    A video game programmer struggles with recurring memory blackouts - during which his alter ego takes outrageous risks - throwing his carefully controlled life into chaos.